The other options you can play around with to get the GIF you like the most. The only necessary option is that you click to enable “As Animation”. A final popup window will show up like the one below. Then at the top, name your file, and make sure to end the name with. Step 6: Lastly Make The GIF BY Exporting It

If you found that you want to change the animation order, you can move around the layers in the layers box that we opened up in step 4. You can exit out of the test animation box now. You can change the speed as well as the number of frames per second. In the menu choose:Ī new box will pop up, and you can play your animation. Step 5: Test What The Animation Will Look Likeīefore you actually make the GIF, it is a good idea to test what it will look like. If you know that you imported them all in order, then you don’t have to worry about manually ordering the layers. You can manually move the layers in the box to change the GIF’s animation order.

The layer (image) on the bottom will be the first part of the animation and the layer (image) on the top will be the last part of the image. Though, you may already have the Layers box enabled in which case you wouldn’t have to do the previous step. Step 4: Open The Layers Dialogue Box And Order Your Images You could actually import all images including the first one if you doĪnd then select all of your images, but this would only be useful if the images are ordered properly. Repeat the above this step for all images. Next, you will open your second image by doing: You will now open the first image that will be in your GIF animation.Īfter the first image, you will open all additional images as layers. Although it isn’t necessary to order your images, it makes it quicker to make the GIF file in GIMP.

For example, you could name your first image image1.jpg (or image1.png), the next image as image2.jpg (or image2.png), and so on. In this step, ideally you will put all of your images in one folder, and order them. Step 2: Get The Images That You Want To Make A GIF Out Of And Order Them

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